Poorer households have a higher chance of young women migrating to work because they are in great demand in factories and service sectors in urban Indonesia as well as domestic and care sectors overseas. Women also find it easier to migrate as they pay little to no upfront costs to move. Read more about the impact of parental migration on youths in Ponorogo in our latest policy brief.

What we can learn from the day-off policy for migrant domestic workers in Singapore.

Advocacy is not straightforward. To make gains, civil society activists work hard to reframe migrant policies and politics in Singapore. In campaigning for a weekly day off for migrant domestic workers in Singapore, they spoke to different audiences by strategically making use of a moral appeal, speaking to cost-benefit logics, and characterising migrant labour protections as a matter of the market. Read more in our latest journal article in International Migration.